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From: c_k_201@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:58:04 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
From: Christopher k. kuruneri
No. 274 Wlmer Street Summer-strand
(6001) Port Elizabeth
(South Africa)
E-Mail: c_kuruneri@yahoo.com
BUSINESS/INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
Dear: Sir/Madam
Indeed, I sincerely apologize for the embarrassment this might cause you. However,
I wish to state, that it is sincerely necessitated by my present plight and I pray you will readily be of tremendous assistance. I am Mr. kharbo Christopher kuruneri, from Zimbabwe and the son of Mr. kuruneri Christopher who until recently was the Honorable Minister Of Finance in the present Robert Mugabe Government in Zimbabwe. Precisely, on The 24th of April 2004, the security goons of President Robert Mugabe in what was an excessive and unprecedented use of force arrested my father while still a Government Minister at our family house in Harare.
He was arrested on the allegation that his building of a Thirty Million Rand (i.e. USD$ 30 Million) beach front mansion in Llandudno, Cape Town, South Africa was in contravention of Zimbabwe’s regulation on Foreign exchange control. Though, my father has repeatedly made it clear that he did not in anyway contravene this regulation, maintaining, that he was funding the housing project from funds he made through his business ventures and consultancies work outside Zimbabwe prior to his becoming a minister, and that the funds were never held nor transferred from Zimbabwean banks, charges, are yet to be laid against him in a court of law, my father has been held in solitary confinement and under severe inhuman conditions.
However, my family is undoubtedly aware of the underlying political intrigue and vendetta that is involved in this case than meets the eyes. It simply has to do with my fathers uncompromising stance against the oppressive polices and unwholesome activities of President Robert Mugabe, besides, my father’s recent rising popularity within the ruling ZANU-PF party, and around the country and his touting as a possible successor to President Robert Mugabe. Being aware of Robert Mugabe’s antecedents, to say, that my father and the entire family entertain great concern and apprehension about his life and that of the other members of our family, is to state the obvious. It is obvious from his actions; President Robert Mugabe is out destroying the family political, financial and otherwise. Presently, I have moved with the rest of my family into South Africa, where we have managed to gain asylum.
However, the tactic support for President Mugabe from the present South African Government, coupled with the proximity of both countries makes our continued stay and hope for a future in South Africa most risky and uncomfortable. In the meantime, I have been mandated by my father, to explore avenues and make every necessary arrangements immediately to move our only left fund, since others has been seized, out of this country and also make arrangements to resettle the rest of my family in any of such country. At present, I am desperately seeking your assistance in helping me to move-out the sum of Fifteen million five hundred thousand united dollars (USD$ 15.5m) being the total sum deposited with a security and finance company here in Port Elizabeth South Africa to your country for viable investment. Unfortunately, under the recent South African Financial intelligence center Act (FICA) and the Exchange Control Regulations as a refugee I am highly constrained from personally transferring this money out
of South Africa.
However, this could easily be effected with the representation/assistance by a nationals of a different country apart from nationals of the Southern African development countries (SADC) hence my writing. For your assistance towards the successfully completion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 15% of the total sum involved and the remaining will be for our investment purposes. Please then, could you be of any assistance in lieu of this transaction, I kindly request that you contact me as soon as possible through the telephone/fax numbers and address above for further discussion. However, against the backdrop of my safety and that of my entire family, I hope you appreciate more than ever the essence for the confidentiality of this.
I have attached at the end of this mail, some media reports concerning this present predicament of my family to aid you with further insight:
http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/kuru.1566.html http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/kuru3.1599.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml? Xml=/news/2004/04/26/wzim26.xml http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-259_1518150,00.html
Do accept my highest considerations. I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Mr. kharbo Christopher kuruneri
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